At the end of November last year, the state’s go-to guy for weather prognostication, CU and NOAA researcher Klaus Wolter issued a prediction for this winter:“Oh it’s dry and grim.”[1]

Today, we’re wallowing in a winter for the record books. Statewide, the snowpack in Colorado’s seven river basins was 134 percent of the 30-year average, the best it’s been this time of year in a decade.
In the Upper Rio Grande basin down south: 173 percent of average.
San Miguel, Dolores, Animas and San Juan: 167 percent.
Arkansas: 165 percent.
Gunnison: 152 percent.
Colorado River basin: 127 percent.
Yampa and White: 110 percent.
And the wee-est of the pack: The South Platte is a mere 101 percent of its 30-year average.
And we’ve still got the wettest month, March, to go.